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...windy, and sales must have been low: the Square had one of the dullest weekends in years. On the following Monday Cambridge City Councilor Edward J. Sullivan, who had demanded that the University pay for its students' exuberance in 1950, proposed a resolution commending Harvard for the tranquillity. "The students," he commented this time, "behaved very well...
Generally Parisians approve of sending the city to the cleaners. But one landmark raises doubts: Notre-Dame Cathedral, waiting defiantly in all its historic and original grime. Says venerable Municipal Councilor Armand Massard: "It would be better to blacken Sacré-Coeur. that ugly cream cheese." Middle-of-the-rue opinion advocates a rinsing that will not render Notre-Dame stark white but merely wash behind the gargoyles' ears...
...deciding vote in Monday's election was cast by Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci. Vellucci, one of five independents on the Council, had originally nominated himself. The other four independents voted for Andrew T. Trodden, while Mayor Crane got the support of the four Cambridge Civic Association-backed Councilors. But after the ballotting had produced the 4-4 tie between Crane and Trodden, Vellucci switched his vote to Crane to end the contest...
When Crane was elected in 1960 seven ballots were needed before he could gain a majority. Curiously enough, Councilor Vellucci broke that deadlock also, switching his vote to Crane on the seventh ballot after voting for himself six times...
...nine candidates after yesterday's counting were: Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, 4,735; Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, 4,071; G. d'Andelot Belin, 2,802; Daniel J. Hayes, 2,402; Councilor Cornelia B. Wheeler, 2,106; Councilor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '28, 2,004; Bernard Goldberg, 1,984; Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, 1,920; and Councilor Pearl K. Wise...